EXECUTED

EXECUTED

Executed, the new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Cuts, runs from January 19 to February 19, 2015 and is parallel to Executive Chair by artists Haydn Jones, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, and Jonathan Munro at Guest Projects in London. The exhibition, themed around issues related to the corporate world and corporate discourses, offers different perspectives on the nature of contemporary production, work place and workers’ rights.

The workplace is the space where desires are crushed by the realities of contemporary politics and the erosion of worker’s rights. It is the place where people and their hopes are executed.

The works of art featured in the exhibition fluctuate between a dark reiteration of office discourses and hierarchical forms of exploitation and abuse which are decontextualized and represented in an art setting, a repurposing of the drama of financial data which are willfully replayed by the artist within a contemporary aesthetizing and anesthetizing agenda, and the invitation to playful interactions with the audience dismissing the misery and reality of contemporary labour interactions.

The title Executed refers to the execution of a particular task, as a means and end in itself, as well as an exaggerated description of the realities of contemporary work culture. The concept also openly winks to the idea of execution as a dramatic and final moment in people’s lives in which the execution of a task is also the execution of one’s dignity and life.

The artworks featured in Executed have been the outcome of a collaborative process by artists Haydn Jones, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, and Jonathan Munro, with the curatorial contribution of Ozden Sahin.

Throughout the exhibition, the artists question the production of spaces, discourses, and bodies within a corporate setting, referring to the role of larger economic and political structures that shape them as well as the people that work in them.

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Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as an artist, curator, and academic. He is a visiting professor and research affiliate at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and professor and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is the founder of The Studium: Lanfranco Aceti Inc., the founder and Director of OCR (Operational and Curatorial Research in Contemporary Art, Design, Science and Technology), and founder and Director of MoCC (Museum of Contemporary Cuts).